The lawsuit against the National Institutes of Health argues that the Obama/NIH guidelinesviolate the 1996 ban against tax-funded embryo destruction,
andeffectually take funds from researchers seeking to work with adult stem cells.

The researchers who were granted standing to sue have been involved in non-embryonic research and have applied for NIH grants.

Their suit claims the government “dismissed or ignored substantial scientific research that demonstrates that adult stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells (“iPSCs”) provide ethically and medically superior alternatives.” Read the updates about such promising non-embryonic stem cell research for

The Obama administration could appeal today’s decision or try to rewrite the guidelines to comply with U.S. law. However, it seems the latter is an impossible task, since, as reported by Lifenews.com, Obama’s “attempt to avoid Congress’s command by funding everything but the act of ‘harvesting’ is pure sophistry.”